DESCRIPTION

This module implement a UDP client for the statsd statistics collector daemon in use at Etsy.com.

You want to use this module to track statistics in your Perl application, such as how many times a certain event occurs (user logins in a web application, or database queries issued), or you want to time and then graph how long certain events take, like database queries execution time or time to download a certain file, etc...

If you're uncertain whether you'd want to use this module or statsd, then you can read some background information here:

NAME

Net::Statsd - Perl client for Etsy's statsd daemon

ABOUT SAMPLING

A note about sample rate: A sample rate of < 1 instructs this library to send only the specified percentage of the samples to the server. As such, the application code should call this module for every occurence of each metric and allow this library to determine which specific measurements to deliver, based on the sample_rate value. (e.g. a sample rate of 0.5 would indicate that approximately only half of the metrics given to this module would actually be sent to statsd).

increment($counter, $sample_rate=1)

increment(\@counter, $sample_rate=1)

To increment more than one counter at a time, you can pass an array reference:

Net::Statsd::increment(['grue.dinners', 'room.lamps'], 1);

You can also use "inc()" instead of "increment()" to type less.

decrement($counter, $sample_rate=1)

Same as increment, but decrements. Yay.

Net::Statsd::decrement('some.int')

You can also use "dec()" instead of "decrement()" to type less.

update_stats($stats, $delta=1, $sample_rate=1)

Updates one or more stats counters by arbitrary amounts

Net::Statsd::update_stats('some.int', 10)

equivalent to:

Net::Statsd::update_stats('some.int', 10, 1)

A sampling rate less than 1 means only update the stats every x number of times (0.1 = 10% of the times).

gauge($name, $value)

Log arbitrary values, as a temperature, or server load.

Net::Statsd::gauge('core.temperature', 55);

send(\%data, $sample_rate = 1)

Squirt the metrics over UDP.

Net::Statsd::send({ 'some.int' => 1 });

_sample_data(\%data, $sample_rate = 1)

This method is used internally, it's not part of the public interface.

Takes care of transforming a hash of metrics data into a sampled hash of metrics data, according to the given $sample_rate.

If $sample_rate == 1, then sampled data is exactly the incoming data.

If $sample_rate = 0.2, then every metric value will be marked with the given sample rate, so the Statsd server will automatically scale it. For example, with a sample rate of 0.2, the metric values will be multiplied by 5.

AUTHOR

Cosimo Streppone <cosimo@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Cosimo Streppone.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Module Install Instructions

To install Net::Statsd, simply copy and paste either of the commands in to your terminal